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The Backchannel

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March 12, 2010 10:00 AM

500 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX 78701-4121

500 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX 78701-4121

Armed with laptops and smartphones, audiences are no longer sitting still at conferences like SXSW - instead they're using Twitter and social media to create a backchannel and start their own conversations while the presenter is talking. Is this a good thing? Or a does it spell the end of presentations?...